What Is The Connection?
A 15-year-old feels humiliated at lunch and disappears into their phone for hours.
A 32-year-old promises their partner, "I'm fine," while pouring a third glass of wine.
A manager snaps at their team, apologizes, then does it again next week.
On the surface, these look like three different problems. They're not.
They're the same wiring, expressed at various life stages.
This isn't about weakness, poor choices, or bad management.
It's about a nervous system that learned early that emotions equal danger, and that wiring is now running decisions in classrooms, living rooms, and boardrooms.
The pattern is always the same: big emotion triggers the nervous system, the brain reads it as danger, and the person escapes into whatever numbs fastest.
The Numbers Tell the Story:
- Youth: Up to 38% of teens meet criteria for problematic internet use, driven by using screens to escape uncomfortable feelings.
- Adults: 50% of adults report at least one active addiction in a given year. Nearly 1 in 2 with alcohol dependence see their marriages end.
- Workplace: In a 500-person organization, burnout and avoidance-driven behavior quietly drain $1.5M to $3M per year in lost productivity, turnover, and conflict.
This isn't about willpower, discipline, or better policies.
It's about wiring. The Connection.
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Emotional Pain Is Not the Enemy
The Crisis Spans Every Stage of Life
Emotional pain is not the enemy. But somewhere along the way, the brain learns that it is. It is wired to believe: big emotion leads to threat leads to escape. And escape looks like alcohol, weed, overwork, scrolling, porn, gaming, food, affairs, or shutdown.
The neural pathways gets set early.
The consequences compound for decades.
YOUTH (12-18): When Feelings Become "Danger"
By adolescence, many kids have already learned: "I cannot feel this. I have to get away."
Numbers:
- 1 in 10 teens meet criteria for problematic internet use (9.8%), problematic phone use (9.1%), or problematic gaming (10.7%), and the strongest predictor isn't boredom or access. It's experiential avoidance: using technology to escape distressing thoughts and feelings (García-Oliva & Piqueras, 2016).
- In some samples, up to 38% of adolescents show problematic internet use (Cheng & Li, 2014).
- The pattern is clear: teens aren't just "spending too much time online." They're practicing a survival strategy.
Their nervous system is learning: "Big feelings are not safe. Escape is." These are the same neural pathways that will later grab the bottle, the vape, or the next project instead of having a hard conversation.
ADULTS: Multiple Addictions, Broken Bonds
Those teens grow up. The wiring does not.
- 50.8% of adults report at least one addictive problem in the past year. 13.1% report two. 7.9% report three or more (Sussman et al., 2011).
- Among adults in substance use treatment, 32.6% used two or more substances in the last 30 days (CDC, 2021).
- The relational toll is staggering: 48.3% of adults with alcohol dependence see their marriage end, compared to 30.1% without. That's almost 1 in 2 versus 1 in 3 (Dawson et al., 2006).
What does this look like in real life?
Nights lost to screens or substances. Intimacy avoided. "I'm fine," while numbing out. Blow-ups followed by shutdown. Partners who feel like roommates. Kids who stop asking questions because the answer is always a distraction.
The core problem is still the same rule: "I cannot feel this. I must numb it."
THE WORKPLACE: Avoided Feelings on the Payroll
Now that nervous system is in organizations, managing people and making decisions.
The Prevalence in the Workforce
In a mid-sized organization of 500 people, the math is sobering:
- About 250 people are dealing with at least one active addiction
- 65 are managing two
- 40 are juggling three or more
Globally, 11.1% of people meet criteria for behavioral addiction: internet, smartphone, gambling, sex, or food (Sussman, 2017). Work addiction itself is linked to worse social functioning, more interpersonal conflict, and poorer work-life balance (Andreassen et al., 2016).
These aren't "problem employees." They're people whose brains learned early that emotions are dangerous, and now they're bringing that wiring to work.
WHAT CHANGES WHEN THE WIRING CHANGES
When people learn that emotions are information and safety, not threat, the shifts show up across every context:
- Students begin to ask for help, stay in hard conversations, and regulate without needing to escape into devices (months 2 to 3). They stop treating every uncomfortable feeling as an emergency that requires immediate exit.
- Adults report being able to feel disappointment, conflict, or fear without immediately reaching for numbing behaviors (months 2 to 4). The automatic grab for the phone, the drink, or the distraction begins to have space around it.
- Leaders report being able to sit in conflict and feedback without reactive urgency (months 2 to 3). They begin to stay present in hard conversations instead of flooding the room with urgency or shutting down.
- Teams see fewer revision cycles and faster decision velocity as perfectionism-driven avoidance drops (months 3 to 4). Projects move forward because "good enough to ship" stops feeling like a threat.
- Voluntary turnover among high performers begins to stabilize (months 6 to 12). People stop quietly planning their exit because staying no longer costs them their nervous system.
THE CONTINUUM
As teens, up to 38% show problematic tech use when screens become their main way to avoid feelings.
As adults, 50% report at least one addiction each year; nearly 1 in 2 with serious alcohol problems see a marriage end.
In workplaces, avoidance costs millions in lost productivity, burnout, and turnover.
This is not about "a few people who drink too much." It's about a nervous system that learns "emotions = threat" and expresses that rule through addictions, fractured relationships, and underperforming teams.
Change the brain's rule from "emotions = threat" to "emotions = safe signal," and the entire trajectory shifts for youth, for families, and for every organization they touch.
The Shaw Enterprises Solution
Our Approach
The root problem is not behavior. It's the nervous system wiring that learned "emotions = threat" and built a lifetime of avoidance, numbing, and escape around that rule. Most solutions treat the symptoms: the burnout, the substance use, the conflict, the turnover.
Shaw Enterprises rewires the source.
TRIGGERZ® is a neuroscience-backed, eight-step system that trains the brain and body to recognize emotions as information and safety, not danger. Whether we're working with students learning to regulate without devices, adults breaking cycles of addiction and relational fracture, or organizations reclaiming millions in lost productivity and retention, the mechanism is the same: change the wiring, change the outcome.
When people stop running from their emotions and start using them, everything shifts: performance, connection, health, and legacy.
TRIGGERZ®
TRIGGERZ® Volume I
The Foundation: Where All Transformation Begins
Most people manage their triggers. TRIGGERZ® rewires them.
This neuroscience-backed system teaches your brain and body to recognize emotions as information and safety, not threat. Volume I is the first of six volumes, and it lays the essential foundation: the neuroscience framework, the first two steps of the 8-step method, and the first two of thirteen Truth Pillars.
Through practical tools and a 21-day nervous system challenge, you'll build the core skill that makes everything else possible: observation that creates detachment. You'll develop new neural pathways that replace automatic avoidance, numbing, and reactivity with regulation, clarity, and resilience.
The book provides the framework. The real transformation happens in the 6-session workshop series (virtual and in-person), where you practice the method in real time, with real triggers, until your nervous system learns a new response.
Whether you're navigating a significant transition, leading a team, or raising teenagers, the pattern is the same: change the wiring, change the outcome.
Volume I stands alone. It's also the gateway to everything that follows.
Why We're Different
We address the wiring, not the symptoms.
Most programs treat burnout, addiction, and conflict as separate problems. We address the root: a nervous system that learned "emotions = threat." TRIGGERZ® rewires that rule at the source.
We work across the continuum.
We see what others miss: the pattern that starts in a teen's bedroom, fractures adult relationships, and costs organizations millions isn't three problems. It's one wiring issue expressed at different life stages. We intervene at any point and shift the trajectory.
We measure what matters.
We don't track engagement scores and satisfaction surveys. We track burnout reduction, turnover, absenteeism, productivity, and ROI. You get your own data, not vendor case studies.
We're selective, not scalable.
Shaw Enterprises works with a limited number of organizations and individuals each year. We don't do volume. We do depth, customization, and outcomes that justify the investment.
EXCELLENCE UNLEASHED. PURPOSE FULFILLED.
Every quarter you delay, the wiring stays the same.
Teens wire deeper into avoidance.
Adults cycle through another substance, another numbing behavior, another fractured relationship.
Organizations lose another $300K to $2M in burnout, turnover, and lost productivity.
You can keep managing symptoms.
More apps. More EAP. More "resilience" training that doesn't change how the nervous system responds under pressure.
Or you can rewire the source.
Shaw Enterprises partners with a limited number of schools, individuals, and organizations each year.
If you're ready to address the root cause, not the symptoms, the next step is simple:
[For Schools] → Explore TRIGGERZ® for Students
[For Individuals] → Start Your Personal Transformation
[For Organizations] → Schedule a Confidential Executive Consultation
The question isn't whether this works. The neuroscience is clear. The question is whether you're ready to move.
Three Divisions. One Impact.
TRIGGERZ®
CENEU 1:1 Clarity Coaching
CENEU 1:1 Clarity Coaching
Neuroscience-Backed Nervous System Training for Youth, Adults, and Organizations
TRIGGERZ® is the vehicle for transformation across the continuum. Through an eight-step method and 21-day nervous system challenge, it rewires the pattern at the source: teaching the brain and body that emotions are information and safety, not threat.
For youth (12-18): Build regulation skills before avoidance wires deep
For adults: Break cycles of addiction, numbing, and relational fracture
For organizations: Reclaim millions lost to burnout, turnover, and dysregulation
Delivered through three pathways:
Student (we train your people),
Instructor (we train your trainers), and Affiliate (you integrate TRIGGERZ® into your practice)
Grounded in 30+ years of research from HeartMath Institute, polyvagal theory, and trauma neuroscience.
This isn't symptom management. It's source-level rewiring.
CENEU 1:1 Clarity Coaching
CENEU 1:1 Clarity Coaching
CENEU 1:1 Clarity Coaching
CENEU 1:1 Clarity Coaching for Deep Transformation
Sometimes the wiring work requires more than a workshop.
CENEU offers intensive 1:1 coaching that integrates TRIGGERZ® with personalized guidance for leaders, professionals, and TRIGGERZ® Instructors navigating major transitions, building businesses, or addressing complex relational and professional patterns.
Through in-person sessions (virtual when necessary), unlimited messaging support, and real-time co-regulation, Britney Valas works with a maximum of 7 clients at a time to create the conditions for genuine nervous system rewiring, not just intellectual understanding, but embodied change.
For leaders: Regulation under pressure becomes your default
For professionals in transition: Navigate upheaval with clarity instead of reactivity
For TRIGGERZ® Instructors: Business strategy + embodied mastery of the work
This is an intensive, personalized transformation for those ready to move from understanding the concept to embodying the change.
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EXP Strategic Partnerships That Multiply Impact
Not every transformation needs 1:1 coaching, and not every organization needs to build this capacity internally. EXP creates strategic partnerships that expand reach, revenue, and impact for both Shaw Enterprises and mission-aligned organizations.
Four Partnership Pathways:
Affiliate Partner: Refer clients, earn 3% ongoing revenue across all six TRIGGERZ® volumes. No overhead, pure passive income.
Business Host Partner: Provide your space for workshops, earn per-ticket revenue, and convert participants into ongoing clients for your services.
Instructor Path Support: Certify your staff to teach TRIGGERZ® independently and create permanent revenue streams across youth, adult, and corporate markets.
Strategic Partner (10 nationwide): Co-market to corporate wellness buyers, structure cross-referral systems, and become the TRIGGERZ®-certified hub in your region.
This is how healing scales: through partnerships that serve more people without diluting the work.
What Becomes Possible
Ready to Begin?
You've seen the continuum. You understand the wiring. You know the cost of waiting.
Now imagine what shifts when entire families, teams, and organizations learn that emotions are information and safety, not threat.
Teenagers who can ask for help instead of disappearing into screens. Adults who can repair instead of numbing.
Leaders who can hold pressure without broadcasting reactivity.
Workplaces where people bring their full capacity because their nervous systems finally feel safe enough to do so.
This isn't utopia. It's neuroscience.
When you change the wiring at the source, you don't just change this quarter or this year.
You change the legacy. What you learn, you model. What you model, your kids and teams absorb. What they absorb, they carry forward.
Healing doesn't stop with you. It multiplies.
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